Amalgamated Friday #26
Friday August 31, 2007
Fires in Greece
The fires in Greece started by an arsonist or set of arsonists were on a lot of people's minds this week. At least 63 people have been reported ... Read More
Site of the Day: La Venta (Mexico)
Thursday August 30, 2007
La Venta is an important Olmec civilization site
Mosaic Platform, La Venta (Mexico)Photo Credit: Ruben Charles
located near the town of Huimanguillo in Tabasco state, Mexico. The site was large, ... Read More
Photo Essay: Benjamin Franklin's Mastodon Tooth
Wednesday August 29, 2007
Benjamin Franklin was, of course, a founding father of the United States of America.
Benjamin Franklin as depicted in the frontispiece of: "Life of Benjamin Franklin as written by himself," ... Read More
Site of the Day: Kebara Cave (Israel)
Tuesday August 28, 2007
Kebara Cave is a rockshelter in Mount Carmel Israel,
Mount Carmel, Israel Photo Credit: US Library of Congress, via pingnews.com
with multiple occupations dated to the Middle Paleolithic and Natufian periods. ... Read More
Star Carr (England), Site of the Day
Monday August 27, 2007
The more I read about the European Mesolithic, the more I'm interested in these creative adapters to climate change (hint hint). Today's site of the day is the classic European ... Read More
Top Five Writing and Research Tips
Sunday August 26, 2007
Need some help writing that research paper? Here's some clues about how to make the process as painless as possible.
Top 5 Writing and Research Tips
#1: Picking a Topic
Amalgamated Friday #25
Friday August 24, 2007
Archaeology and Tourism
Question for the ArchaeoBlogospher, Chris O'Brien on North State Science
Religious Graffiti at Historic Sites, Chris O'Brien
Opening Archaeological Sites Up To Tourists, Afarensis
Responsible tourism in Angkor, noelbynature in Southeast ... Read More
Kerma (Sudan): Site of the Day
Thursday August 23, 2007
Today's site of the day is Kerma, a kingdom and cultural group in the Sudanese Nubia, which grew out of the A-Group culture (or pre-Kerma) during the Egyptian Middle Kingdom ... Read More
Sourcing Ochre
Wednesday August 22, 2007
A paper in an upcoming Journal of Archaeological Science reports on the preliminary success of attempting to identify sources of ochre in the Tucson Basin.
Iron Oxide Outcrop, Alligator Gorge, ... Read More
Chauvet Cave (France): Site of the Day
Tuesday August 21, 2007
The Upper Paleolithic rockshelter called Chauvet Cave is our site of the day, because it is one of the oldest paleolithic cave art sites on the planet,
Ardeche Gorges, Roussillon, France
... Read More
Site of the Day: Verlaine (Belgium)
Monday August 20, 2007
Today's site is called "le Petit Paradis" (the Little Paradise), and it could be said that the paradise at Verlaine is mostly in the eyes of lithic artifact experts--that is ... Read More
Books on Cultural Resource Management
Sunday August 19, 2007
Cultural resource management, or heritage management is where the study of the past in all its forms intersects with the present. It is the practice that protects the elements of ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday #24
Friday August 17, 2007
Peruvian Earthquake
The earthquake in Peru yesterday, marked as 7.9 on the Richter scale, occurred off the coast of central Peru, in the near-vicinity of the Nasca Lines. If you're going ... Read More
Huaca de la Luna (Peru) - Site of the Day
Thursday August 16, 2007
Too soon to do another Moche site? Maybe not. Huaca de la Luna (Shrine of the Moon)
Huaca de la Luna, Moche site, Peru Photo Credit: Bruno Girin
is actually part ... Read More
Photo Essay: The Dead Sea Scrolls
Wednesday August 15, 2007
This week's photo essay is on the Dead Sea Scrolls,
Community Rule, MS 4Q260-366, written in Hebrew on parchment between 1st century BCE and 1st century CE Photo Credit: Tsila ... Read More
Site of the Day: Cerro Lampay (Peru)
Tuesday August 14, 2007
The site of Cerro Lampay is a fairly small archaeological settlement of the Caral-Supe civilization of Peru. Caral-Supe, you'll recall, is the earliest civilization in the Americas, at 4,600 years ... Read More
Mapping Angkor
Monday August 13, 2007
The Angkor Civilization (or Khmer Civilization) was an important society of southeast Asia, including all of the Mekong Delta in Cambodia, and big pieces of southeastern Thailand and southwestern Vietnam. ... Read More
Site of the Day: Omo Kibish (Ethiopia)
Monday August 13, 2007
According to the latest studies, the archaeological site of Omo Kibish, also known as KBH and Omo, is one of the oldest locations where early modern human has been found...
And ... Read More
Top Mummy Movies
Sunday August 12, 2007
Okay, school is just about to get started, pretty much all over the world in the northern hemisphere, anyway, so maybe it's time to settle down, crack open those books ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday #23
Friday August 10, 2007
Ileret Skulls
Two skulls, one Homo habilis, one Homo erectus, have been found in the same general place, at the same general time and are shaking up the latest notions of ... Read More
Site of the Day: Nausharo (Pakistan)
Thursday August 9, 2007
The site of the day isn't one of the oldest, or biggest, or most important; but it is a pretty cool site nonetheless. Nausharo is a small pottery workshop of ... Read More
The Royal Tombs of Aksum - A Photo Essay
Wednesday August 8, 2007
This week's photo essay is The Royal Tombs of Aksum, and it is a new update of one of the very first photo essays I did here on About.com.
The ... Read More
Possible Tomb of Aztec Ruler Ahuitzotl Identified
Tuesday August 7, 2007
According to an Associated Press story, Mexican archaeologists have discovered an entryway to an Aztec tomb, buried beneath damaged Spanish colonial buildings near the zocalo in downtown Mexico City.
Wall ... Read More
Site of the Day: Box Gully (Australia)
Tuesday August 7, 2007
Another really old site is our site of the day today; it's Box Gully, an old hunting camp in Victoria, Australia. As usual, you'll simply have to click on through ... Read More
Timbuktu (Mali): Site of the Day
Monday August 6, 2007
If you're going to speak of mysterious Africa, you have to bring up the site of Timbuktu (also spelled Tombouctou or Timbuctoo).
Sankore Mosque, Timbuktu Photo Credit: Rahim S. Rajan
The ... Read More
Top Books on the Moche Culture
Sunday August 5, 2007
Putting together that photo gallery of the Moche last week, I was able to get my hands on a number of really beautiful books published about the fabulous Moche, so ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday #22
Friday August 3, 2007
Archaeology Vacations
Adventures in Angkor - Angkor Wat, noelbynature at Southeastern Asian Archaeology has a long piece with lots of photos on his recent visit to Angkor Wat.
Road Trip, Guatemalan Style, ... Read More
Site of the Day: Monte Alban
Thursday August 2, 2007
Monte Alban, some 1400 meters above the valley floor in the Valley of Oaxaca, Oaxaca state in today's modern country of Mexico, was the capital city of the Zapotec Civilization. ... Read More
Photo Gallery: Field Tech Life
Wednesday August 1, 2007
The new, improved WHS trowel Photo Credit: Katrien Janin (c) 2006
Ever wondered what it's like to be an employed archaeologist working on a dig someplace in the world? The photo ... Read More